workflow

2 definitions found

workflow - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  workflow
      n 1: progress (or rate of progress) in work being done [syn:
           work flow, workflow]

workflow - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  workflow
  
     1. <operating system> The scheduling of independent jobs on
     a computer.
  
     See also time-sharing, WFL.
  
     2. <job> The set of relationships between all the activities
     in a project, from start to finish.  Activities are related by
     different types of trigger relation.  Activities may be
     triggered by external events or by other activities.
  
     3. The movement of documents around an organisation for
     purposes including sign-off, evaluation, performing activities
     in a process and co-writing.
  
     [Stef Joosten et.al. "An empirical study about the practice of
     workflow management", WA-12 report, 1994].
  
     (1995-03-27)